Frequently Asked Questions

Yes. With staged migration, parallel testing, incremental synchronization, and a controlled cutover, businesses can significantly reduce or avoid customer-facing downtime.

Depending on the project, this can include video content, metadata, artwork, users, subscriptions, purchase records, viewing history, devices, apps, and business rules.

Billing migration requires careful handling of subscription status, plans, renewal dates, payment relationships, and payment-provider requirements. Sensitive payment credentials may need to remain with the original payment provider.

Not necessarily. A properly planned migration can transfer customer account information so users can continue using their accounts on the new platform.

The timeline depends on platform complexity, data volume, applications, billing systems, integrations, and testing requirements. Vodlix states that its migration projects typically take around four to eight weeks, depending on complexity.

Yes. A partial migration can be appropriate when a business wants to retain parts of its existing infrastructure while moving specific components.

Test account access, subscriptions, billing, content playback, metadata, apps, DRM, geographic restrictions, analytics, and critical customer journeys.

Use a defined data-mapping process, backups, validation rules, test migrations, reconciliation, and a final synchronization before production cutover.

Yes. Vodlix provides migration services for existing OTT platforms and states that it can migrate content, customer data, and payment data, with final testing and post-launch support.

OTT platform scalability is the ability of a streaming service to handle increasing numbers of viewers, video requests, bandwidth requirements, and application traffic without significant performance degradation.

A scalable architecture typically combines CDN-based delivery, adaptive bitrate streaming, resilient origin infrastructure, scalable authentication, monitoring, and extensive load testing.

A CDN distributes video closer to viewers and reduces the amount of traffic that must be served directly by the origin, helping improve scalability and playback performance.

It can help manage bandwidth and improve playback because viewers receive a suitable quality level based on their network and device conditions.

Test video delivery, CDN performance, origin load, authentication, DRM, APIs, analytics, playback startup, buffering, and failure recovery.

It depends on the delivered bitrate. At an average of 5 Mbps per viewer, 100,000 concurrent viewers would represent approximately 500 Gbps of aggregate video throughput.

Yes. Vodlix supports live TV, live events, HLS and MPEG-DASH streaming, CDN delivery, adaptive bitrate streaming, analytics, monetization, and delivery across multiple platforms.

They should design and test for expected peak traffic with additional capacity and redundancy. Average traffic is not a reliable measure for major live events.

Common causes include insufficient CDN capacity, overloaded origins, authentication bottlenecks, DRM bottlenecks, poorly tested APIs, inadequate monitoring, and insufficient redundancy.

Yes. Load testing helps identify infrastructure bottlenecks before a real event creates an unexpected concurrency spike.

Hybrid models combining subscriptions, ads, and transactions are the most profitable because they maximize both reach and revenue.